The Assignment:

Part 3, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1 and expanded in Module 2, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

• Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
• Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
• Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
• Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
• Explain how Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 3, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:

• identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your: (1) academic work as a student of the MSN program and (2) professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

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Part 3 Section 1: Academic and professional Integrity

There is a strong direct relationship between academic integrity and writing. How a scholarly work is written represents its owner’s level of academic integrity. Writings that have been falsified and plagiarized, for instance, do not meet the required standards of academic integrity. The intentional falsification and fabrication of scholarly information in either assignments or research works is a serious violation of academic integrity (McHaney, Cronan & Douglas, 2019). In the last decade, there has been a surge in different forms of breach of academic integrity, partly necessitated by the emergence and proliferation of information technologies. For instance, ghost writers lack sufficient time and resources to gather factual data for studies that require students to undertake real research within the actual research site. This problem results in falsifying and fabricating information, thereby tampering with the universally recommended standards of academic integrity. Furthermore, plagiarism occurs when a student fails to observe standards of academic integrity such as correct referencing practices and treating others’ works as theirs.

Professional practices are strongly related to scholarly ethics. Professionalism is founded on the ideals of observing evidence-based scholarly works to guide decision-making in different areas of life. Therefore, when the body of these scholarly works are corrupt and based on falsehood, they can misguide experts in embracing the right professional decisions when they are confronted with complex problems. Observing scholarly ethics and integrity directly translates into proper professional practices in different specialty areas. Universities are firms of special status in the society (Macfarlane, Zhang & Pun, 2014). Globalization implies that integrity failures interfere with institutional brands and the credibility of higher education systems. Professional practices are founded on the credibility of institutions of higher learning to churn out scholars who can deal with real and complex problems within their areas of expertise. As such, academic corruption reduces people’s observance of professional practices in their subsequent career life.

Part 3, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

There are various strategies that I am going to embrace to boost the integrity and ethics of my work as an MSN student and professional nurse. For instance, I will strive to avoid all forms of academic dishonesty, such as intentional lying, cheating, and false representation. Additionally, I will minimize loopholes for plagiarism through assessment design, such as customization, avoiding improper citations, and increase my level of originality. I will also avoid plagiarism by avoiding copy pasting the texts verbatim from the reference materials and instead putting the ideas in my own words. Furthermore, quotations can be utilized to indicate that the textual information has been lifted from another work. These quotes need to be precisely in the same manner in which they appear in the original work from which they were taken (Information Resources Management Association, 2019). Falsification of data is one of the most common forms of cheating in academia. In order to avoid it, I will conduct real studies and report the exact factual data without adding biases or opinions.

In my career life as a nurse, I plan to use different forms of strategies to uphold professionalism. For instance, I will follow professional rules and regulations that guide the field of nursing. For instance, code of ethics for nurses often include descriptions that are associated with professional responsibilities and duties that support and maintain societal purposes of the profession (Kangasniemi, Pakkanen & Korhonen, 2015). Furthermore, I will adhere to both national and international legal standards that guide nurses’ activities. In many societies, national or international advisory documents hel0p to inform policies, provide professional identity, as well as regulate the nursing profession. Another strategy that I can employ to conform to universally-agreed ethical practices for nurses is to work with multidisciplinary teams to guide my decision-making practices. Inter-professional collaborations can provide me with more insights into effective adherence to the recommended professional practices.

Many critical thinking frameworks and models can be employed to promote acceptable professional practices in nursing. When conducting research or completing a complex task, for instance, I would use Imogene King’s conceptual system approach to practice critical thinking. This model emphasizes on the continuing capacity of people to meet their essential needs so that they can function within their socially defined roles (Kearney-Nunnery, 2015).  Nurses can use the model to improve their perception by effectively organizing and interpreting information from sense data and memory. Such memories can grant meaning to people’s experiences and represent their image on reality. Nursing practices are directed towards supporting people to maintain their health conditions so that they can effectively function within their roles. The King’s practice model, which is the basis for goal attainment, helps to improve a nurse’s interaction with patients in order to optimize positive health outcomes.

Finally, I will uphold professional practice by ensuring that my work focuses on promoting wholeness for all people, healthy or sick. Patients are partners and participants in nursing care. As such, they are temporary dependents of the nurse. As a nurse, my goal should end such a dependence by providing quality of care, avoid errors and malpractices, and improve patient safety. One practice that can support the attendance of this goal is to formulate an effective nursing care judgment that is supported by evidence-based scientific methods (Kearney-Nunnery, 2015).  For instance, the nurse should collect data that will inform nursing decisions and practices with the utilization of relevant assessment models to establish objective empirical rationales for decision-making. In all decisions that I will make, I will ensure that I understand the basis for any prescribed medical regimen, such as medical diagnoses and the patient’s history.

References

Information Resources Management Association. (2019). Scholarly ethics and publishing:

breakthroughs in research and practice. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Macfarlane, B., Zhang, J., & Pun, A. (2014). Academic integrity: a review of the

literature. Studies in Higher Education, 39(2), 339-358.

Kangasniemi, M., Pakkanen, P., & Korhonen, A. (2015). Professional ethics in nursing: an

integrative review. Journal of advanced nursing, 71(8), 1744-1757.

Kearney-Nunnery, R. (2015). Advancing Your Career Concepts in Professional Nursing. FA

Davis.

McHaney, R., Cronan, T. P., & Douglas, D. E. (2019). Academic integrity: Information systems

education perspective. Journal of Information Systems Education, 27(3), 1.

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